Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-26
BIDS ACCEPTED.

treasury ClrCular. Inc tOlal amount
offered was 81, Jas, 900.
BIDS ACCEPTED.
WAsHINGTUN, Aug. 24.-Secretary
Fairchi!d this afternoon accepted the fol
lowing bids for the sale of bonds; Har-
TeY Fisk & Sons, $500, 900 registered at
los, $1,000 coupon at los lilo and Sl20,-
200 registered at los i-IG; Lockwood &
Crossman $50, 900 coupon at 100, p. V.
H&gner $1,000 coupon ard $500 registered
at l07, Boston Marine Insurance Com
pany 500, 600 registered at l09, New
England Mutual Life insurance Company
$500 900 at l07, 500, 900 st los, $1,000
ct ICS; Provident Institution for Savings
$500, COO st l09, New Bedford Institution
for Savings $4,000 at l08. The total
amount Of bonds purchased is s., 13S, 400.
THE TOBACCO ACREAGE.
WASHINGTON, Aug. u j. B. Dodge,
statistician of the Agricultural Depart
ment, has written q letter to Hon. n. j.
Coleman, Commissioner Of Agriculture,
in which he says: "In accordance with
your direction | have consolidated the
August returns already received and re-
viewed all the data from other sources up
to date together with that upon which the
July report Was based especially for
of opinion existed and much interest was
excited. | find that late returns so far re-
ceived make an average CT only +1.5 per
cent. of last years acreage while private
returns from over $4,000 growers
of western tobacco reporting their own
area in cultivation this year in compnri-
son with their acreage last year, makes
an area of less than 40 per cent. The July
-arpr+ FOR EpptUpLyy which wa bs sod II mon
the returns OF siXty-siX correspondents,
each representing county, made an
acreage Of SO per cent. Of that 1885. In
the examination of these reports and in
view Of the results OF long experience Of
the tendency 10 underestimate the
/ acreage, leo me TO place the Kentucky
| sasexge at IS per cent.
Late returns have very Clearly
shown that q concerted effort was made
to reduce the area this year on account
of the recent low prices. Unfavorable
conditions have affected the plant beds,
and drouth has lnterfered with setting
and growing to such an extent as to
render inaccurate the rules for revision
usually adopted which have heretofore
proved to be correct and necessary. l
SIN, therefore, satisfied thst the July
estimates were too high as reported. The
( indication OF the recent reports to this
department show that the OHIO board and
other authorities point to very low
ssyeage.
THE PRESIDENT DEFENDS HIMSELF.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2+.-The Presi-
dents attention was called to-day to a
matter lately appearing in the New EeEk
World TO the effect that he was not
properly supporting the commissioners
appointed to examine the affairSeekSie
kPscifc Railway, and giving as proof al
I the charges what was alleged &c be the
contents of the Presidents answer to
! Chairman Pattison, the dispatch propos
| ing assistant counsel in the proceedings
against Leland Stanford. The President
said l have no time to read or
reply 10 misrepresentation Of
| opposition newspapers, and
am not CT all afraid they will
succeed in deceiving the people as to the
| policy or course Of the administration
touching the matters in question, but if
there is man, woman or child who
would feel easier after reading the dis
patch which l sent to Governor Patti
son, they shall have it,"
Following is the disp4tch:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
NASHINGTOS. Aug. Is. 1881.
| To Robert f. Pattison, Chairman United
Stats Pacific Railways Commission, san
| Francisco, Cal:
Upon your statement that in your judg-
ment counsel should be employed, l au-
thorize and approve such employment.
Signed GROVER CLEVELAND.
REDEMPTION OF TRADE DOLLARS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24-Under the law
| the time allowed for the redemption Of
trade dollars expires on the Sd Of next
month. The amount redeemed to date is
little over S7,+O0,000. The number Of
these dollars estimated to be held in this
country by the director of the mint in his
report to Congress, was 7,03G,000: and
the slight excess in redemption is &C.
counted for by importations from China.
TEXAS APPOINTMENT.
| Special 10 the Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2+.-The Secretary
of the Treasury has appointed William
II. Seward assistant keeper OF the light
! house st Arkansas to-day.